Took the day off today and I woke up, not late exactly but definitely later than usual ::beams:: Then I went shopping with Best Friend the First and my godson, then I napped! I actually napped! During daylight hours and everything! ::happy little sigh:: Tonight I shall be going to the cinema to watch a random film which has yet to be chosen. In short, this has been the most relaxing Friday I have had since September and possibly the last til Christmas.

I'll go off to read some Merlin fic now. Oh, except the niece just woke up so I might play with the baby instead.

I love today! I DO!

::bounces off::

I am very, very tired. And I still haven't finished reading all the crap I'm supposed to read for tomorrow ::headdesk:: This has been going on since September, I just don't have enough time to get through everything and things keep piling up and up and up AND I NEED TO REST DAMNIT!

And it will get worse before Christmas because they're working on the 2010 budget as well and the last plenary is Dec 10 because after that it's budget week and then Christmas and there are way too many bills that must be passed before then.

I need a mental health day. Hell, I need a physical health day so I can sleep. I need to sleep.

Instead, I'm getting a coke so I can get a caffeine boost and finish up.

You know, I started explaining why especially last week sucked (because it really, really did) but then I thought, the bad things were mostly resolved and I feel fine now so why should I bring myself down again? There's no earthly reason why! So there.

Anyway, that would be why I dropped off the face of the online planet. I hope you lot had a nicer time of it. ::smiles at flist::

I shall now go off and read Merlin fanfic. Because Merlin and Arthur are teh hot and the ansgt possibilities are endless.

Must make Merlin icons. Must find, download and install photoshop first as new laptop is still photoshop-free.

Once you've learned English the british way, no matter how much American telly you watch, no matter how many american phrases you pick up, some things remain at least momentarily confusing. Like when watching CSI Miami, and Horatio says "But look at his pants, that looks like a swipe.", you sort of blink and go 'They swiped his pants?', then the camera pans down and you go 'Ooooohhhh, trousers! Blood swipe!"

Then you feel a bit silly because you're talking to an empty room ::grin::

Other than the laptop of course. I'm checking out a couple of refurbished offers this afternoon. I was going for a Dell after it was repeatedly recced but techfriend warned me off because, even though it has the best support and all that abroad, it doesn't have a rep in Cyprus so we get none of the good support stuff. So, I'm contemplating another HP. The old one was great and if not for the freak accident it would still be going strong.

Aaaanyway...things that happened...

The niece is now officially one year old, bless her little cotton socks. She's a little menace, she is.

She insists on touching the remote controls, trying to stand up by holding onto the most precarious things, wanting to type on my now-deceased laptop, putting everything in her mouth and peering at lit candles with a scarily determined face.

Of course, she also gives the bestest hugs, has learned how to blow kisses at people, tries to turn off the lights by blowing at them, much like she does to candles (whether they're lit or not), starts dancing the moment she hears music, ditto singing (though it's more ooohhhahhhheeee than actual singing), calls water 'brrrr' and her dad 'bama', has managed to walk so long as she doesn't realise she's not holding on to anything and she's always, always very happy to see me, which I can tell because she stops whatever it is she's doing and crawls to me with suprising speed and a smile on her face. ::grin::

I was home sick yesterday as my stomach decided to continue its revolt. I'm sure it thinks it's a regular Che Guevara but really it's more like the Mouse that Roared. I'm not the US though so I'm beating it into submission by hot beverages, pasta and meds.

Since I was home, I watched Children of the Earth. ( Under a cut just in case there's some poor soul who's better at putting off watching it than I was )

I'll shut up now. Except, I'm making an exception to my non-spoiler rule, just this once so if anyone knows anything about series 4, tell me!

Using a Jack/Ianto icon because, even though Russel T Davies is an evil bastard of a magnitute greater than Joss after turning Cordelia into an alien gestation bitch, at least he gave us Janto.

Apparently the motherboard shorted out and it would cost me more to fix it than to get a new laptop. So, I told techboy to pull the metaphorical plug.

I'm pouting about losing my old (OLD!) laptop, it wasn't even two years old the poor thing, but on the plus side, how many people do you know who can honestly say their laptop expired in a freak accident? Also, shiny new laptop! Though because of the aforementioned shiny new laptop, there will be no shiny new mobile. Or if there is, it's going to be at Christmas after I get my bonus and substantially less shiny.

Any ideas on what laptop to get? The demise of the old one was so sudden I don't even know where to start looking for a new one!

My computer might be dying ::sigh:: I'm on my mum's laptop for now because I have work to do.

I don't know how but there seemed to be something stuck in my throat so I thought, I'll drink water and it'll go down. How does this relate to my poor laptop, you ask? Well, the water thing was a miscalculation. Because it didn't go all the way down nooooo, it all came back up. And I'd drunk about a pint in one go. It all came back up while I had my laptop on my lap. It all came back up and was spewed on my laptop.

Of course then I had to run to the toilet to ahem...dispose of my lunch the same way, leaving my computer running. ::headdesk:: I came back, found the screen flickering, turned it off but then it was too late. It restarted to this shrill beeping noise after which I promptly shut it down again but apparently, it may already be too late ::sigh:: I'm leaving it off and without the battery until tomorrow when I'll try again but my tech friend is not very optimistic.

Hihihihi!

What's up my lovely, lovely flist? Is there sunshine, in your cloudy day? Is it cold outside, but you have the month of May? ::bigfatsmile::

Useless information for you: Tottenham Hotspur, was the first football team to win the double this century. ::beams::

Bye!

Anyone wanna beta a Sirius/Remus fic for me? ::hopeful look:: I kinda want an opinion on the format as well, I'm of two minds on the POV and...anyway, anyone up for it?

(You know, I can never pull off a good Irish accent except for on a couple of words that I picked up from my flatmate's boyfriend back when I was at uni.)

Ahem...

Becc and I will be giving out yesterday's big huge report during a meeting today which sttarts in ohh...a half an hour and may or may not end by lunch time. That's in five hours folks. But that's okay, the nice people at the cafeteria know I need my Becc so they shall bring it to me about ten minutes into the meeting. Ah, the joys of working in a small place. The cafeteria knows your needs!

So you see it's all good, for I have Becc by my side and entrenous88's drawing in my head ::grin:: Also, I have Addicted to Love playing in my head too, so I shall probably spent the entire meeting with that as the soundtrack!

Caffeinated!Nash, to the rescue! ::sticks tongue out at virtualpersonal::